online collaboration

Credit unions began as a revolutionary idea of people helping people by pooling together resources and encouraging self-help. Today, credit unions are the leaders of the cooperative industry in assets, income, wages, employees and other significant categories.

You can’t open up a trade publication or attend a credit union conference these days without hearing about Gen Y. These are the members who need loans and are key to our credit unions' survival. How can credit unions start reaching out to this generation, and where can they start?

Credit unions talk a lot about gaining share of wallet. So when Google recently announced its new mobile payment system, branded Google Wallet, this got me thinking about what happens when our member’s wallets go virtual? For some, the idea of using your cell phone to check out at the...

For advancement and future growth of the credit union movement, it is time we usher in a new era of collaboration and innovation among today’s young credit union professionals, CEOs and senior executives.